I saved a Ram!!

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Well, I ended up returning a male Blue German Ram to my LFS becuase the larger one was bullying him to the point of death. So, on my second attempt at getting a female, I go back, and all the Rams that appear to be females look kinda of sick. By sick, I mean that their fins area all ragged looking and they lack color. I went against my better judgement and picked the largest female (who was still in pretty bad shape), or at least what I think is a female.

Anways, as it turns out, she looks a lot better these days. Only a few days later and her bottom fins are spread out instead of all shriveled up. Her back fin was all cut up and soggy looking but now it appeast to have fused back together in one piece. She swims around and is actually a lot more golden with a tint of the blue traits, rather than a straight blue like the male I have.

Just a quick question to the Ram experts. I still dont know if she/it is a female. She is less colorful, but more in a yellowish golden way. It has several barely visable blue specks where the black dot should be. The male does pick on her, but not nearly as much as he did the smaller male. What do you you all think? Anyways, thanks for reading.
 
The blue specks indicate that you should have a female on your hands. With any luck those two will pair off given a bit of time. I wonder if she was damaged before she got to the LFS or if she was way stressed while she was there.
 
Also sounds like she is not a german blue ram, but a golden ram.

This first pic is of a golden ram:
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These are german blue rams:
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Is it possible?
:)
 
Yeah, I think it's a golden one. I hope they will be able to pair although today it looks as if the big guy has been stressing her a little bit too much. Perhaps I will take her out and put her in a tank by herself for the time being. Anyways, thanks for the imput everyone.
 
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